From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/04]: Fix axrpc/afs related bugs Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 02:07:14 +0200 Message-ID: <463927B2.8030506@trash.net> References: <20070503000256.30775.81929.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: dhowells@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:48246 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767275AbXECAHu (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 20:07:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070503000256.30775.81929.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Oops, typo in David's address. David, please look at these patches (especially the last one) on netdev. Thanks. Patrick McHardy wrote: > These patches fix two bugs introduced by the RXRPC patches. While looking > at the other code that came in with these patches, I noticed it includes > an entire rtnetlink client in the kernel, which doesn't seem to make much > sense since all the information is available in much easier ways, so I've > replaced it by two small helper functions that should do exactly the same. > > Unless I'm missing something fundamental, please apply :) > > > fs/afs/Makefile | 2 > fs/afs/cmservice.c | 1 > fs/afs/internal.h | 1 > fs/afs/netdevices.c | 54 +++++ > fs/afs/use-rtnetlink.c | 473 ---------------------------------------------- > include/linux/netdevice.h | 1 > net/core/dev.c | 21 +- > net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 6 > 8 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 484 deletions(-) > > Patrick McHardy (4): > [NETLINK]: Fix use after free in netlink_recvmsg > [AFS]: Fix memory leak in SRXAFSCB_GetCapabilities > [NET]: Add __dev_getfirstbyhwtype > [AFS]: Replace rtnetlink client by direct dev_base walking